Prince Boring and Concubine Qiao Ai

Since Zhao Ling was reborn, it was the first time that he went shopping alone with Luo Yi.Because of Princess Luo's words, it was the first time in 20 years that the head of the bodyguard of Ningzhuang had a big vacation, and Princess Luo stuffed 100 taels of silver to go elsewhere to buy some delicious and fun things, so as not to hinder his two-person world.

The streets and alleys of Liangdu were crowded with students who came to seek official positions, and there were literati carrying small bundles and holding a volume of books everywhere.Groups of threes and twos, discussing exam questions, poems, policy articles, and stalls selling the Four Treasures of the Study are long in line, and business is booming.

Lord Luo is dressed plainly and plainly, not even as well as a rich man who is a little more particular. From head to toe, except for the dagger at the waist, there is nothing valuable, and the expression on his face is relatively cold. On the contrary, the clothes Zhao Ling wears Excellent, the quality of the Wujia tailor shop, money is hard to buy in the world, plus he is good-looking, shaking a fan in his hand, looking around from time to time, shopping here and there, quite a few rich people come with personal guards Liang Du is in a playful posture.

"The business of Wu's family is getting more and more prosperous." Zhao Ling saw a shop selling calligraphy and painting, but couldn't squeeze in at all. He looked up and found the flag of Wu's family hanging beside the plaque.

"Three years after Uncle Wu's death, Wu Wan entered the palace, Wu Lan was in charge of the family, and the emperor tried his best to build a business route against all opinions. The Wu family's business grew bigger and bigger. Now it has the name of Daliang Imperial Merchant, spreading all over the four countries, and it is unprecedentedly prosperous." Luo Yi still didn't quite adapt to the crowded environment. There were so many people, it was impossible to avoid them all, and there were more or less physical touches.Resisting the discomfort, who made his concubine like to be lively, these few days because I tricked him into being poisoned and acted with him in the Luo Palace, she was almost suffocated to death.

Zhao Ling had already noticed that Luo Yi's face was pale, so he didn't even need to think about it, it was another attack of cleanliness.This problem has to be overcome, and it will be good to exercise more.

Luo Yi is completely inconsistent with his living habits. For example, the ground up and down the palace is so clean that he can look in the mirror. He feels guilty even when he steps on it. What makes him speechless the most is after doing that thing every night , Luo Yi bathed him several times, and the skin was almost rubbed off.

So today he deliberately walked in a particularly crowded place, and Luo Yi couldn't leave him behind, so he could only squeeze with him.

Luo Yi saw Zhao Ling squeezed into a group of people, and the people who squeezed with him were all mothers with children. He didn't know what was sold inside. He looked to the west, and the road to the teaching field was still so far away. Did he Should I remind Zhao Ling, who was having a great time shopping, that the martial arts competition is about to start?

Zhao Ling squeezed out, holding a bunch of candied haws, and gave Luo Yi a bite first, "Isn't it sweet?"

Luo Yi shook his head, "I don't know."

He has no sense of taste, and since he drank too much 20 years ago, he no longer knows the taste of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty.

"I heard from Gong Si that Xuanwu Pavilion visits famous doctors every year to treat you. Is there really no way to cure it?" Zhao Ling asked casually, and Luo Yi replied that he didn't realize it until it was too late. The words have already been asked.

He decided to go to Xuanwu Pavilion to look up those ancient medical techniques when he had time. Maybe there are folk remedies available. Luo Yi branded the root cause of this disease because of him.

"It's sour." Zhao Ling bit off the remaining hawthorn balls, "It's so sour."

Luo Yi looked at the crystal hawthorn, he remembered the taste of candied haws.He remembered Zhao Ling snatching his candied haws when he was a child.Zhao Ling's teeth had worms since he was a child, and the doctor didn't let him eat more sweets. Concubine Xue Gui even banned sweets. Whoever gave Zhao Ling sweets would be served in prison.For a long time, Zhao Ling could only watch others eat.Once when Uncle Wu came to the palace, he brought candied haws for the juniors, but Zhao Ling didn’t have any, and sat on the side angrily. When Uncle Wu left, Zhao Ling jumped over like a monkey and snatched away his candied haws , ate half of it, and sent it back to him.

Naturally, he wouldn't eat the ones that were touched by others, not to mention that there were Zhao Ling's tooth marks on the hawthorn, and he was about to throw it away, but Uncle Wu came back and asked with a smile, "Is the candied haws delicious?"

Uncle Wu is an elder, so the minimum courtesy cannot be lost. Luo Yi reluctantly swallowed the candied haws that Zhao Ling had bitten with closed eyes, expressing against his will that it was delicious.

Since then, he has never eaten candied haws again. When he saw the candied haws, he remembered Zhao Ling's huge tooth marks, and his stomach acid came up.Later, when I grew up, I didn't touch this kind of food that children only eat.Over time, I forgot about it.

"Martial arts!" Zhao Ling finally realized that he had been scribbling in the market for so long that he had forgotten his business, "Let's take a shortcut."

Luo Yi seemed to have received an amnesty, the shortcut was the alley next to it, where there were few people and it was quiet.

The two came to the martial arts examination room. The first round of the examination had already begun. The candidates lined up in two rows on the left and right, and drew numbers for a two-two duel. Those who won would stay and go directly to the next round, and those who lost would wait for the examiner's judgment.

The guards outside the door stopped the two of them, "The exam has already started, so I won't let you in, come back next year."

He regarded Luo Yi and Zhao Ling as those who came to take the martial arts exam.

Lord Luo rubbed his waist, it was empty. Thinking about it, Zhao Ling took his token away in the morning, saying that the Ningzhuang guards refused to listen to him and had to see the token with his own eyes.

What about tokens?Luo Yi looked at Zhao Ling.

"Forgot..." Zhao Ling was embarrassed. He showed Ningzhuang the token in the morning, threw it on the table, and forgot to bring it when he went out.

The guards didn't know them, and they had no way to prove that they were the princes of the Luo family.

"Let's climb the wall." Zhao Ling said secretly.

"..."

Zhao Ling was not joking. He had climbed countless times with Gong Cheng. Although he was a little taller, he remembered that there was a tree next to a wall. He climbed along the tree to the top, jumped directly onto the wall, and climbed over the top of the wall. The most remote corner of the martial arts arena.

Luo Yi couldn't afford to lose that person, the majestic Lord Luo climbed the wall with the princess, what if he was discovered?He would rather go back and get the token.

"Come on, come on, there is a first time for everything." Zhao Ling dragged Luo Yi to find the tree, and the tree grew taller, making it easier to climb over the wall.

"Wait..." Luo Yi frowned, "There are words on the wall."

"Huh?" Zhao Ling looked carefully, "It's the secret code of the coalition forces."

Back then, when the Five Kingdoms formed an allied force to crusade against Ningguo, the Luo family and the Xue family were in the vanguard, far away from the main force, and the communication in the army was not in the five countries' characters, but in encrypted characters. Even if they were intercepted, they would not be able to read .

The coalition forces were disbanded 20 years ago, and the secret characters have long since disappeared. How could it appear here at this time?

Luo Yi knew the codebook by heart, and translated, "The first half of the code: ten miles of mist and ripples are light."

This is the first sentence of a poem, and the second sentence is: Thunderbolt, insects and beasts are frightened.Zhao Ling thought it was fun. He hadn't seen this codebook for 20 years. Back then, he and Xiao Lu racked their brains to create this codebook. He is such a person who doesn't want to read books, staring at countless small characters every day. Check back and forth.On a whim, he used a stone to carve the second half of the poem in encrypted characters on the wall.

To climb the wall again, Luo Yi refused desperately, "I'll go back and get the token, you wait for me."

Luo Yi turned around and left, for fear that Zhao Ling would regret it.

"Hey, hey...someone is here!" Zhao Ling also knew that it would be difficult for Lord Luo to die, and the uncle was not old enough to mess around like a young man like him, so he would not die of anger if his elder brother found out.The sound of footsteps gradually increased, and someone passed by. Could it be that they also wanted to climb the wall to get in?

The person who came was a little beggar. The beggar ran over and stuffed a ball of paper into Luo Yi's hand.

???

Luo Yi was stuffed with a paper ball for no reason, and was very puzzled. The little beggar ran fast and entered the crowd in a blink of an eye. He resisted his nausea and opened the paper ball. There was no word on it.

"What is it?" Zhao Ling was curious, when did Lord Luo deal with beggars?It is said that the little beggar's hands are full of mud...

Luo Yi gave him the note, took out a handkerchief to dry his palms, and said, "I don't know."

Zhao Ling sniffed the scent, "Ningxianglu."

Once upon a time in the army, in order to prevent the information being passed on from being stolen by the enemy, after finishing writing, they applied a special potion on the paper, and the handwriting would gradually fade away.The taste is very mild, and it was specially prepared by Gong Cheng from the experts in Xuanwu Pavilion.Ningxianglu was the name given by Zhao Ling back then. Only the soldiers of the Xue family knew this name, and those with higher status in the coalition forces of Luo Yi and Xiao Lu.Later, the war ceased. According to records in the history of Liang, the Wu family bought the formula from Xuanwu Pavilion and developed it into a perfume, which was very popular among women from all over the world.

Luo Yi's sense of smell was also affected by the alcoholism that year, but it was not completely lost like the sense of taste.The scent of the condensed fragrance was very weak, and he didn't notice it.

"Ask the little beggar first, the ball of paper doesn't seem to belong to him." Zhao Ling had an intuition that this matter was strange.

Luo Yi also agrees, it's just that he missed the martial arts, the secret order that popped up suddenly is more interesting.

"Xiaozhuang..." Zhao Ling shouted.

Ning Zhuang fluttered down from the tree.

"I knew you were worried and followed us secretly." Zhao Ling said proudly.

Ningzhuang has nowhere to go, and Liangdu has no friends.What kind of street does a big man go shopping?After walking around for two laps, he followed Zhao Ling and the others to the Martial Arts Field.

"Xiao Zhuang, catch the little beggar just now." Zhao Ling believed in Ning Zhuang's lightness skills, catching a child would not be a problem.

When he and Luo Yi returned to the mansion, Ning Zhuang had already returned with the child.

The little beggar said, "Oh, an uncle gave me ten taels of silver and told me to give him the ball of paper if I saw someone write these seven characters on the wall."

For the password connector!

Zhao Ling was right, the poem was not for him to read, but he mistakenly hit it right.The little beggar was a messenger and gave them the note by mistake.

Luo Yi found Ningxianglu, and the handwriting on the white strip was revealed, densely packed like ants, some small and many.

"There are so many words, can't you just change to a big paper?" Zhao Ling's eyes hurt when he looked at it, "It's like some kind of exam topic... No, no, no, I'm blind, Luo Fuxun, come and read it to me."

Luo Yi took it over, read a sentence, and fell silent again.

Lying on Luo Yi's lap, Zhao Ling closed his eyes and rested his mind. He didn't hear a sound for a long time, "What's wrong?"

"Exam questions."

Luo Yi's face was solemn, and Zhao Ling could feel that Lord Luo was suppressing his anger.

Realizing the seriousness of the situation, he hurriedly got up, "This year's imperial examination has not yet started, and the examination questions are circulating in the market, who is so bold!"

Fairness is the most important thing in the selection of talents in the imperial examination. If the test questions are leaked, those who have no talent will get official positions.

Leaking the test questions is a death penalty, and the law is important.

Luo Yi knew who had handled the exam questions this year, and had several candidates in mind.The imperial examination questions are written by Emperor Liang himself every year, and this year is no exception, but it is impossible for Emperor Liang to leak the questions himself.Xiao He is the prime minister and Zhou Geng is the grand tutor. They both have to look at each other, but they both know the importance of the imperial examination for Liang's talent selection, and they will never do anything out of the ordinary.

Neither did he himself.

The remaining five bachelors were responsible for making suggestions for Emperor Liang's questions, and twenty young servants were responsible for copying and printing the test questions after they were completed.Until the end of the imperial examination, they lived and boarded in the palace, cut off contact with the outside world, and it should not be them.

The examination questions were sealed after they were released from the palace, and no one had the guts to tear them apart, unless he wanted to implicate the nine clans and be executed immediately.

And now, there are several days before the exam, the exam questions should be in Emperor Liang's study, and they haven't been out of the palace yet.

Who is it?

Zhao Ling listened to Luo Yi's analysis, thought for a while, and said, "I have a rough guess. Luo Fuxun, before I tell you this guess, I want you to give me a word first, who do you lean towards when it comes to the crown prince of the Great Liang?" ?”